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Evans replaces Clarkson on BBC's 'Top Gear'

Broadcaster Chris Evans is to replace Jeremy Clarkson as lead presenter of the BBC’s hit motoring show “Top Gear”, the corporation announced Tuesday. The BBC said Evans, 49, had signed a three-year deal to present the world’s most popular factual TV programme — and announced that Clarkson’s former co-presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, would not be returning, after months of speculation. Clarkson was dropped from the madcap “Top Gear”

Brazilian music icons Caetano, Gil back on tour at 72

Five decades after galvanizing the Brazilian music scene with the “Tropicalia” movement, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso are going back on tour, older and wiser but still border-blurring troubadours. Gil, a politically engaged musical ambassador who once served as Brazil’s culture minister, and Veloso, a wispy, gender-bending poet with a sublimely mellow voice, have been friends and collaborators since 1963. Caetano and Gil, as they are popularly known, shook the

China rebuffs Trump comments on stealing U.S. jobs

China on Wednesday rebuffed comments by U.S. real estate mogul and presidential contender Donald Trump that China is stealing U.S. jobs through crafty business practices, saying trade between the two countries was win-win. Trump wallowed in political incorrectness on Tuesday as he insulted everyone from Mexican immigrants to Jeb Bush and U.S. ally Saudi Arabia in announcing his bid for the Republican nomination. “Economic and trade cooperation between China and